WHO calls for more women to have access to contraceptive products

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Geneva – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for more women in low and middle-income countries to have access to a broader range of safe and effective contraceptive products.
At the Family Planning Summit in London last month, WHO also urged more support for integrating family planning services into basic health care and a systematic examination of why so many women are still unable to obtain contraception when needed.
An estimated 222 million women and girls in developing countries who do not want to get pregnant lack access to contraceptives as well as family planning information and services. WHO estimates that maternal deaths could be reduced by one third if all the women who wished to avoid pregnancy had access to effective contraception. Unmarried, young, poor, migrant and rural women often have no access to family planning counselling and services.



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